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I was doing some more work on my list of potential female speakers from the API space. I have some slots to fill for @APIStrat, and I saw another API event was looking for suggestions when it came to speakers. A perfect time to invest some more cycles into finding female API talent. Twitter and GitHub are always where I go for discovery. I picked up where I left off working on this last time, turned on my search tools that use the Twitter and Github API, and got to work enriching the algorithm that drives my API talent search.

Next up on my task list was to deploy a name microservice that would help me filter Twitter and GitHub users by gender. I’m interested in API folks of all types, but for this round, I need to be able to weigh by female. I found a list of the top names from the United States which had them broken down by gender. I copied and pasted into a Google Sheet, fired up a GitHub repository, and published the spreadsheet of data to GitHub as YAML — giving me a male.yaml, and female.yaml listing of names. I will be use these names in a variety of web and API applications, but I wanted to be able to help filter any search results by a female name for this project. I understand the limitations of this approach, but it is good enough for what I am looking to accomplish today.

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